Major Nidal Hasan, the man who slaughtered 13 of his colleagues and injured many more, will go undergo a trial, where it shall be determined if he was actually guilty. Even if it’s a military tribunal, it is still some form of court.
His motive shall be established. He shall have an opportunity to defend himself, with legal counsel.
Let’s compare that to the Palestine, from where his family hails.The various scenarios include:
1. Hasan would have been shot dead on the spot.
2. Had he survived the encounter, he would most likely have been jailed in a dark dungeon somewhere, to be tortured ruthlessly by his former colleagues. Death and mutilation would have been the most likely outcomes, with claims of suicide.
3. In the less than 1% probability that he would have survived his incarceration, Hasan would have gone through a farce of a trial, in the farce of a Palestinian legal system, and would have been sentenced to death without any real legal recourse.
A similar situation would have played through in almost any other Muslim/Arab/Middle Eastern nation.
If the United States were truly the “Great Satan,” the situation would surely have been reversed.
